The show, which has already seen replacements called up for Flash Gordon star Sam Jones and Tara Palmer-Tompkinson, drew a 9.6% share between 8pm and 9pm.

It marked a solid start for Channel 4, which has struggled to find ratings winners of late, and has been stripped across eight consecutive nights.

Not quite all for one and one for all...

The second episode of BBC1's 10-part drama The Musketeers, which stars Peter Capaldi, suffered an audience dip of more than 1 million viewers, but remained the top-rating show in the 9pm hour against ITV's Mr Selfridge.

The Musketeers enjoyed a strong audience inheritance of more than 9 million from Call the Midwife, but attracted 6.2 million viewers and a 23.8% share.

Despite the audience dip Musketeers was once again easily ahead of Mr Selfridge. The second episode of the second series of the ITV costume drama, starring Jeremy Piven, drew 5 million viewers, a 19.3% share in its slot. The audience was down 300,000 week on week.

Nurse, I've had a ratings overdose

BBC1 once again dominated Sunday night, with the second episode of the third series of Call the Midwife pulling in 9.3 million viewers and a 33.8% share between 8pm and 9pm.

Elsewhere, the second and final part of BBC2's The Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve managed an average of 1.8 million viewers and a 6.7% share between 8pm and 9pm.

Channel 5's biggest show of the night was, as usual, Celebrity Big Brother which attracted 3 million viewers, an 11.7% share, between 9pm and 10pm.

All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC channels) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated

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